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Allan Sim Jr, son of Allan Sim, who is charged with the murder of the Georgetown Hospital ambulance dispatcher Melissa Skeete, was yesterday charged as being an accessory to the crime.

A driver was yesterday charged with causing the death of a pedal cyclist by dangerous driving.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison after a city court heard that he was busted with just under one kilo of cannabis after selling the drug to an undercover policeman.

A businessman is now admitted as a patient in a private city hospital after he was shot to his left foot during a robbery on Thursday night at Industry, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

The students of Annandale Secondary School have been provided with a new building, courtesy of a collaboration between the Government of Guyana and the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday said that Agrément has been received for diplomatic appointments to the UK and Canada and that current Ambassador to the United States Bayney Karran will be the new envoy to China.

The main opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has blamed the David Granger-led government for the fatal disturbance at the Georgetown Prison on Thursday.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was briefly detained for questioning yesterday in a federal investigation of a vast corruption scheme, fanning a political crisis that threatens to topple his successor, President Dilma Rousseff.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad yesterday joined hands with long-standing foes, including the party of the jailed Anwar Ibrahim, to crank up pressure on scandal-plagued Prime Minister Najib Razak to quit, marking a seismic political shift.

GENEVA/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Evidence mounted yesterday linking Zika to the birth defect microcephaly, and the U.N.

The main opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has announced a slate of activities planned for this month to commemorate the lives and work of former presidents Dr.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidadian Kashma Maharaj made headline news all over the world on Thursday, as the woman who tried to go through an international airport checkpoint with gun-themed shoes and two bracelets lined with realistic-looking bullet figurines.

AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – A small chain of Pacific islands will face off against Britain, India and Pakistan in court next week to try and get an international ruling ordering them to start work on dismantling their nuclear arsenals.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the government will put key constitutional and social issues to a referendum.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkish authorities seized control of the country’s largest newspaper yesterday in a widening crackdown against supporters of U.S.-based

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today said that Agrément has been received for diplomatic appointments to the UK and Canada and that current Ambassador to the United States Bayney Karran will be the new envoy to China.

At about 2230h. last night, businessman Huang Jian, 44 years, and his reputed wife Jheng Shukang were about to enter their home at Industry, East Coast Demerara, when they were held up by two men armed with firearms, the police say.

The public is being advised that schools around the Georgetown Prison and its environs are closed due to the Georgetown Prison unrest, an alert from GINA said this morning.

The unrest at the Georgetown Prison has ended following a meeting between aggrieved inmates and Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan and Minister of State Joseph Harmon, who promised to address their complaints immediately.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police detained former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for questioning today in an investigation of a bribery and money laundering scheme that they said had financed campaigns and expenses of the ruling Workers Party.